Floater vs. Police — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Floater and Police
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Floater
Floaters or eye floaters are sometimes visible deposits within the eye's vitreous humour ("the vitreous"), which is normally transparent, or between the vitreous and retina. Each floater can be measured by its size, shape, consistency, refractive index, and motility.
Police
The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state, with the aim to enforce the law, to ensure the safety, health and possessions of citizens, and to prevent crime and civil disorder. Their lawful powers include arrest and the use of force legitimized by the state via the monopoly on violence.
Floater
One that floats or is capable of floating.
Police
A body of government employees trained in methods of law enforcement and crime prevention and detection and authorized to maintain the peace, safety, and order of the community.
Floater
One who wanders; a drifter.
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Police
A body of persons with a similar organization and function
Campus police. Also called police force.
Floater
An employee who is reassigned from job to job or shift to shift within an operation.
Police
(Archaic) Regulation and control of the affairs of a community, especially with respect to maintenance of order, law, health, morals, safety, and other matters affecting the public welfare.
Floater
One who votes illegally in different polling places.
Police
(Informal) A group that admonishes, cautions, or reminds
Grammar police.
Fashion police.
Floater
An insurance policy that protects movable property in transit or regularly subject to use in varying places.
Police
The cleaning of a military base or other military area
Police of the barracks must be completed before inspection.
Floater
(Slang) A corpse found floating in a body of water.
Police
The soldiers assigned to a specified maintenance duty.
Floater
A deposit of material in the vitreous humor of the eye, usually consisting of aggregations of cells or proteins that have detached from the retina, perceived as a spot or thread in the visual field.
Police
To regulate, control, or keep in order with a law enforcement agency or other official group.
Floater
A knuckleball.
Police
To impose one's viewpoint or beliefs regarding, especially in an authoritarian way
Policing others' comments by implementing speech codes.
Floater
One who or that which floats.
Police
To critique in a presumptuous or arrogant manner
Policed the grammar of everyone who commented on the blog post.
Floater
An employee of a company who does not have fixed tasks to do but fills in wherever needed, usually when someone else is away.
Police
To make (a military area, for example) neat in appearance
Policed the barracks.
Floater
(sports) An unaffiliated player.
Police
A public agency charged with enforcing laws and maintaining public order, usually being granted special privileges to do so, particularly
Call the police!
Floater
(politics) A voter who shifts from party to party, especially one whose vote can be purchased.
Police
A department of local (usually municipal) government responsible for general law enforcement.
The Sheriff's Department has jurisdiction across most of Chicago but focuses on the unincorporated area and tasks like prisoner transport, leaving the rest to the Chicago Police Department.
Floater
A person, such as a delegate to a convention or a member of a legislature, who represents an irregular constituency, such as one formed by a union of the voters of two counties neither of which has a number sufficient to be allowed a (or an extra) representative of its own.
Police
(UK) A branch of the Home Office responsible for general law enforcement within a specific territory.
Floater
One who votes illegally in various polling places or election districts, either under false registration made by himself or under the name of some properly registered person who has not already voted.
Police
Any of the formally enacted law enforcement agencies at various levels of government.
Floater
An "extra" male at a dinner party, or a young friend of the hostess, whose assignment is to entertain the female guests.
Police
The staff of such a department or agency, particularly its officers; an individual police officer.
Floater
(ophthalmology) A threadlike speck in the visual field that seems to move, possibly caused by degeneration of the vitreous humour.
Police
People who try to enforce norms or standards as if granted authority similar to the police.
Who called the fashion police?
Floater
A small suet dumpling put into soup.
Police
Cleanup of a military facility, as a formal duty.
Floater
(AU) A pie floater.
Police
Synonym of administration, the regulation of a community or society.
Floater
(police jargon) A corpse floating in a body of water.
Police
(obsolete) policy.
Floater
(vulgar) A piece of faeces that floats.
He left a floater in the toilet.
Police
(obsolete) polity, civilization, a regulated community.
Floater
Someone who attaches themselves to a group of people, much to the dismay of that group, and repeatedly shows up to participate in group activities despite attempts to get rid of, or “flush,” said individual.
Police
(transitive) To enforce the law and keep order among (a group).
Extra security was hired to police the crowd at the big game.
Floater
(insurance) A policy covering property at more than one location or which may be in transit.
Police
To clean up an area.
Floater
(finance) A floating rate bond.
Police
To enforce norms or standards upon.
To police a person's identity
Floater
(surfing) A maneuver in which a surfer transitions above the unbroken face of the wave onto the lip, or on top of the breaking section of the wave.
Police
A judicial and executive system, for the government of a city, town, or district, for the preservation of rights, order, cleanliness, health, etc., and for the enforcement of the laws and prevention of crime; the administration of the laws and regulations of a city, incorporated town, or borough.
Floater
(two-up) A coin which does not spin when thrown in the air.
Police
That which concerns the order of the community; the internal regulation of a state.
Floater
(India) A sandal.
Police
The organized body of civil officers in a city, town, or district, whose particular duties are the preservation of good order, the prevention and detection of crime, and the enforcement of the laws.
Floater
A kind of river mussel (genus Anodonta).
Police
Military police, the body of soldiers detailed to preserve civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements in a camp or garrison.
Floater
(prison slang) A book circulated between prisoners that is not part of the official prison library.
Police
The cleaning of a camp or garrison, or the state a camp as to cleanliness.
Floater
(slang) A misstep; a faux pas.
Police
To keep in order by police.
Floater
(basketball) Early layup taken by a player moving towards the rim where, upon release, the ball floats in the air over the top of a defender before dropping softly into the hoop.
Police
To make clean; as, to police a camp.
Floater
One who floats or swims.
Police
The force of policemen and officers;
The law came looking for him
Floater
A float for indicating the height of a liquid surface.
Police
Maintain the security of by carrying out a control
Floater
A voter who shifts from party to party, esp. one whose vote is purchasable.
Floater
Spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens
Floater
A debt instrument with a variable interest rate tied to some other interest rate (e.g. the rate paid by T-bills)
Floater
A wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
Floater
An employee who is reassigned from job to job as needed
Floater
A voter who votes illegally at different polling places in the same election
Floater
A swimmer who floats in the water
Floater
An object that floats or is capable of floating
Floater
An insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewelry) regardless of its location
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